端午节故事英文版

端午节英文小短文如下：

Dear Rick，

How is everything going? I had a five-day trip to London last week. I would like to express my gratitude for your hospitality and kindness when I was in London.

Knowing that you take a great fancy to Chinese culture, especially the Dragon Boat Festival, I would love to introduce it to you. The Dragon Boat Festival, one of the most traditional festivals in China, falls on the May 5th in the lunar calendar.

People celebrate this festival in memory of Qu Yuan, who was a Chinese poet. Besides, people in China will also hold a variety of activities to honor him, such as dragon boat racing, eating zongzi and so on.

Welcome to China.You will have an unforgettable experience if you come to China before this festival.

Best wishes.

The Dragon Boat Festival, also called the Duanwu Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar. For thousands of years, the festival has been marked by eating zong zi (glutinous rice（糯米）wrapped to form a pyramid using bamboo or reed leaves) and racing dragon boats. The festival is best known for its dragon-boat races, especially in the southern provinces where there are many rivers and lakes. This regatta（赛舟会）commemorates the death of Qu Yuan , an honest minister who is said to have committed suicide by drowning himself in a river. Qu was a minister of the State of Chu situated in present-day Hunan and Hubei provinces, during the Warring States Period (475-221BC)（战国时期）. He was upright, loyal and highly esteemed for his wise counsel that brought peace and prosperity to the state. However, when a dishonest and corrupt prince vilified Qu, he was disgraced and dismissed from office. Realizing that the country was now in the hands of evil and corrupt officials, Qu grabbed a large stone and leapt into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month. Nearby fishermen rushed over to try and save him but were unable to even recover his body. Thereafter, the state declined and was eventually conquered by the State of Qin. The people of Chu who mourned the death of Qu threw rice into the river to feed his ghost every year on the fifth day of the fifth month. But one year, the spirit of Qu appeared and told the mourners that a huge reptile（爬行动物）in the river had stolen the rice. The spirit then advised them to wrap the rice in silk and bind it with five different-colored threads before tossing it into the river. During the Duanwu Festival, a glutinous rice pudding called zong zi is eaten to symbolize the rice offerings to Qu. Ingredients such as beans, lotus seeds（莲子）, chestnuts（栗子）, pork fat and the golden yolk of a salted duck egg are often added to the glutinous rice. The pudding is then wrapped with bamboo leaves, bound with a kind of raffia and boiled in salt water for hours. The dragon-boat races symbolize the many attempts to rescue and recover Qu's body. A typical dragon boat ranges from 50-100 feet in length, with a beam of about 5.5 feet, accommodating two paddlers seated side by side. A wooden dragon head is attached at the bow, and a dragon tail at the stern（船尾）. A banner hoisted on a pole is also fastened at the stern and the hull is decorated with red, green and blue scales edged in gold. In the center of the boat is a canopied shrine behind which the drummers, gong（铜锣）beaters and cymbal（铙钹）players are seated to set the pace for the paddlers. There are also men positioned at the bow to set off firecrackers, toss rice into the water and pretend to be looking for Qu. All of the noise and pageantry creates an atmosphere of gaiety and excitement for the participants and spectators alike. The races are held among different clans, villages and organizations, and the winners are awarded medals, banners, jugs of wine and festive meals.

Wu Zixu was a native of Chu, and later fled to Wu because Chu wanted to destroy his family. Later, he and Sun Wu became good friends, almost destroyed the state of Chu, and excavated the corpse of King Chu Ping to whip the corpse.

After the death of King Helu, Wu Wang-fuchai assumed the throne. In the struggle for hegemony between Wu and Yue, Wu Jun defeated Yue, and Gou Jian, king of Yue, asked for peace.

Wu Zixu suggested that the grass be cut down and eradicated, but the husband almost agreed to the agreement. Subsequently, Yue used alienation tactics to buy up traitors and eventually his husband sent Wu Zixu to death.

Before he died, Wu Zixu said, "After I died, I dug out my eyes and put them on the east gate of the capital to see the Vietnamese army destroy Wu.

Fucha was so angry that he put Wu Zixu's body in a leather bag and threw it into the river on the fifth day of May. Later generations commemorated Wu Zixu on the Dragon Boat Festival.

中文翻译：

伍子胥是楚国人，后来因为楚国要将他全家灭掉，伍子胥就逃到了吴国。后来和孙武成为好朋友，差点灭掉了楚国，并将楚平王尸体挖掘出来鞭尸。

吴王阖庐死后，吴王夫差即位。在吴越争霸之中，吴军击败越国，越王勾践请和。伍子胥建议，斩草除根，但夫差一意孤行同意议和。随后，越国使用离间计，收买奸臣，最终夫差赐死伍子胥。

死前，伍子胥说：我死后把我眼睛挖出来，放在都城东门上，看越军灭吴。夫差大怒，将伍子胥尸体装在皮革袋子里，在五月初五投入大江。后人由此端午纪念伍子胥。